Americans are on multiple social media networks and 35% of them get news on more than one, leading to fragmentation of news gathering through social media. However, the vast majority (65%) of Americans who use social media for news only get that news...

A new study reveals that 8% of Americans get their news on Twitter -- people who are younger, more educated and more mobile than the 30% of Americans who get their news on Facebook. Half of the 16% of U.S. adults who use Twitter get their news on the...

A new study reveals that 30% of Americans get their news on Facebook, and suggests that the social network drives people to media sites who may not have otherwise done so. Of that 30%, more than half -- 78% -- said they click on news links to media s...

It's been eight years since the Pew Research Center produced a major report on online dating, and in those eight years, Pew says, Americans have become much more comfortable with looking for romance in the space we call the Internet. Results from a p...

Eighteen million readers and writers around the world spend 4.5-billion minutes a month publishing, collaborating and skimming text on Wattpad, the biggest under-the-radar e-literature community on the web. The Toronto-based startup is a free publish...

More than one in three adult Americans now owns a tablet, more than double the number who owned one just a year ago, according to a study released by the Pew Research Center Tuesday. Pew surveyed 2,252 U.S. adults, and found that 34% owned a tablet, ...

Not long ago, the media looked at the web as if it was an awkward, unwanted stepchild. Today, the reverse is arguably true, with debate growing over whether social networks such as Twitter will overtake beacons of journalism like The New York Times. ...

The tone of the Pew Research Center's latest annual State of the Media report, released Monday, is grim. The study found that U.S. newsrooms have cut their staff by about 30% since highs reached in 2000, and journalism is suffering as a result. At th...

When you're sick or have a health concern, is the Internet the first place you turn to for information? A new study shows the web is just a starting place for finding health information -- most people still see a doctor for serious concerns. In a Pew...

Are you one of the 29% of people who say they can't live without their cellphones? According to a recent Pew Research study, people have a hard time breaking away from their cellphones -- and their friends don't help stop this addictive behavior. The...

It's common for parents to be concerned about what their children do online -- what content they look at, who they're talking to and how the data they put on the web might be viewed as they enter college and apply for jobs. A new study from Pew Resea...

A recently released survey from the Pew Internet & American Life Project confirms that others share one of your biggest cellphone problems --dropped calls. 72% of cellphone owners said they experience dropped calls at least occasionally. And 32% of c...

Adults know how to play nice online, according to a recent survey that asked U.S. adults who use social networking sites how many of their interactions were positive. The survey showed 85% of U.S. adults say people are mostly kind online. Five percen...

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